Yuna Potomkina

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Yuna Potomkina

Counsel

practice areas

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Yuna Potomkina heads Asters Alternative Dispute Resolution practice and focuses on negotiation, mediation, conciliation, fact-finding, early neutral evaluation, settlement conference and settlement agreements, drafting ADR provisions for both domestic and international transactions, and developing and implementing effective dispute resolution strategies, government relations.

She acts on behalf of Ukrainian and foreign business and HNWI in negotiating disputes including with Ukrainian local and state authorities, regulators etc.

Education:

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
The National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, PhD in Public Administration
The Matra Rule of Law Training Programme, The Hague, The Netherlands
Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Certified business mediator for the CCI Munich and Upper Bavaria

Languages:

English, Ukrainian, Russian

Membership and activities:

Honorary member of National Association of Mediators of Ukraine
Member of the Board of the mediation committee Ukrainian Bar Association

Representative experience:

expert of the working group on drafting a Law on Mediation and signing Singapore Convention on Mediation by Ukraine
negotiated Conflict during 2018 UEFA Champions League Final between Gazprom and Local Government
mediated Kyiv City Council, outdoor advertising market and community achieving the "WIN-WIN" outcome in adopting new Ad rules and decreasing the advertising space